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Topic
Board Bitcoin Discussion
Yet another bitcoin website dies a preventable death
by
error
on 17/08/2014, 19:26:36 UTC
For the love of gawd...

http://serverfault.com/q/622020/126632

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The website is fairly large, deals with Bitcoin, there's thousands of dollars in account balances possibly lost, and I'm panicking. ... I do not have a recent backup.

Note to developers: The fact that you can install Ubuntu successfully and use things like Docker, Heroku and AWS does not make you competent at operations.

Please, please, if you're going to start anything that involves Bitcoin, or other people's money in general, be sure you have a competent system administrator looking after things and making sure there are no business-killing mistakes in the environment, like lack of working backups, using Ubuntu as a server, systems not being properly secured, etc.

P.S. I'd love to know which website this was, as I didn't see any news about a well-known site being down after a brief look in the usual places.